CVE-2024-5531: Ocean Extra <= 2.2.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Flickr Widget

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-06-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Ocean Extra plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Flickr widget in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

oceanwp Ocean Extra: through 2.2.8

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ocean-extra/tags/2.2.8/includes/widgets/flickr.php#L59
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b39e17c5-711f-4229-90f4-213ea65a190d?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ocean-extra/tags/2.2.8/includes/widgets/flickr.php#L59
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b39e17c5-711f-4229-90f4-213ea65a190d?source=cve

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